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Health - October, 2012
239 articles
- CDC Must Rethink Snubbing Low Offer For $78M Data Contract
- Ex-Orthofix Sales Manager Pleads Guilty To Medicare Fraud
- JPMorgan, BNY Suit Over $36M Hospital Bonds Trimmed
- Calif. Court Rejects 5 Of 6 Classes In Hospital Wage Suit
- Pharmacy Recalls All Drugs Amid Meningitis Outbreak Probe
- Doc-For-Hire Can't Sue For Discrimination, 8th Circ. Says
- Imaging Self-Referrals Cost US $100M, Threaten Health: GAO
- Missing Marchers In The HHS Breach Parade
- Liberty Mutual Settles Coverage Row With UnitedHealth
- Barnes & Thornburg Adds Jones Day, K&L Gates Attys
- Look Before You Leap Into A Securities Litigation Trap
- Highmark Fires Back In UPMC Antitrust Dispute
- Inventor Hits Texas Cancer Hospital With $10M Royalties Suit
- Oncology Centers Say Fla.'s Inaction Voids State FCA Claims
- HHS Approves Flat-Rate Payments For ER On-Call Specialists
- Donut Hole Drug Prices Kept In Check By ACA, Report Says
- Call Center Workers Accuse Centene Of Obstructing OT Action
- CMS Releases 2014 Reporting Specs For E-Records
- 7 Tips For Avoiding False Claims Act Whistleblower Suits
- Software Firm Sues AHA To Wipe Out Billing Copyrights
- Opportunities And Challenges Of Telemedicine
- Corporate Profits Don't Amount To DOJ's Gain Under FCA
- Kaleida Health Hourly Employees Seek Wage Class Cert.
- CAFA Provides Wide Removal Power, NAM Tells High Court
- Mass. AG Backs ACLU Over Victims' Services In 1st Circ.
- Hospitals Urge Ky. High Court To Reverse Data Ruling
- Dykema Adds Katten Muchin White Collar Veteran In Chicago
- Credit Suisse Dodges PE Firm's Suit Over $12M Investment
- NY Court Boots PE Investor's $100M Suit Over Failed JV
- Texas High Court Rejects Suit Over Comatose Worker's Bills
- Pa. AG Aims To Halt Highmark-West Penn Merger Dispute
- High Court Won't Take Up Ban On Okla. Personhood Law
- Treasury Rejects GOP Subpoena Threat Over Exchange Credits
- Nonprofit Health Systems Ride The Merger Wave
- Maxim Sues DOJ For Details Of $121M FCA Settlement
- ACA Deadlines Loom As Questions Remain For Employers
- Planned Parenthood Sues Over Texas Rule Cutting Funds
- AmerisourceBergen, Pharmacy At Draw In $106M Contract Row
- Humana FCA Claims Weren't Public Knowledge, Relator Says
- Romney Could Give Health Cos. Raked By Probes Willing Ear
- Ky. High Court Nixes Insurer's Anti-Assignment Fight
- GSK Targeted In Antitrust Suit Over Drug-Discount Program
- In Support Of Learned Intermediary Doctrine
- WebMD Illegally Copied Wellness Programs, Hospital Claims
- Convicted Ex-Duane Reade CEO Asks 2nd Circ. For Retrial
- Public Hospitals Push For Repeal Of Safety Net Cuts
- 5th Circ. Won't Reconsider Planned Parenthood Funding Cut
- EEOC Suit Against NJ Hospital Held Subject To 300-Day Rule
- 11th Circ. Backs Toss Of WellPoint Reimbursement Suit
- Buchanan Ingersoll Adds State Lobbyist In Harrisburg
- HMA Ducks Whistleblower Claim It Performed Needless Surgery
- UPMC Faces Class Action Over Worker's Spread Of Hep C
- NY Hospital Pays $7M To Settle Medicaid Billing Suit
- When Retaining Overpayments Leads To FCA Liability
- Simpson Thacher Aids McKesson In $2.1B Medical Supplier Buy
- GSA's Doc Deletion In LabCorp Protest Could Spur Sanctions
- ACA Contraception Rule Doesn't Violate Biz Rights: US Gov't
- Steadfast Settles UnitedHealth Reimbursement Coverage Claims
- Pittsburgh Pair To Plead Guilty To Steroid Distribution
- GOP Lawmakers Seek HHS Spending Docs On ACA Campaign
- UPMC Claims Highmark Funded 'Sham Lawsuit'
- Insurer Asks Supreme Court To Stop 'End Run' Around CAFA
- Tips On Social Media Use For Health Care Employers
- Kaiser Got $4M In Discounts From 'Silent PPO,' Hospital Says
- AvMed Says Customer Precautions Bar Data Theft Class Claims
- Amerigroup Investors OK Contested $5B Wellpoint Merger
- NYC Education Dept. Hit With $2M Medicaid False Claims Suit
- West Penn Blasts UPMC Antitrust Claims In Hospital Feud
- Pharmacists Push Pa. Gov. To Sign Pharmacy Choice Bill
- Bankrupt Ala. County Sued Over $4M Inmate Health Care Deal
- House Expands Probe Into Deadly Meningitis Outbreak
- Hospitals Ask CMS To Loosen Doctor Supervision Rules
- Ind. Can't Defund Planned Parenthood, 7th Circ. Says
- Medical Body Area Networks: Promising Yet Risky
- CMS To Ensure Medicare Coverage For Chronically Ill Patients
- Mich. Gov. Defends Anti-Union Law As Constitutional
- UIG Says Rival Insurance Co. Stole Workers, Trade Secrets
- Leonard Green, Ares Snap Up Health Care Staffing Firm
- Genesis Offer To Nurse Didn't Moot FLSA Suit, High Court Told
- Meningitis Probe Could Cause Drug Shortages, FDA Says
- Ex-Omnicare Worker Says Techs OK'd Prescriptions In FCA Suit
- Medicare Appeal Time Limit Not Absolute, High Court Told
- Halfway House Owner Gets 4 Years For $205M Medicare Scam
- Complying With HIPAA: A Blur For Health Tech Cos.
- Legal Industry Trends: Lawyer Salaries And Job Growth
- Miami Archdiocese Joins ACA Contraception Mandate Fight
- Hunton & Williams Hires Charlie Crist's Ex-GC In Miami
- Insurer Hit With Sanctions For Flouting Asset Freeze
- Powerful House, Senate Panels Set For Election Year Shake-Up
- Blue Shield Asks Justices To Settle Coverage Defense Issue
- Bankruptcy Judge Denies Probe Of NJ Hospital Sale
- Calif. Judge Scuttles Class In Rite Aid Seating Suit
- USC Denied Rent Injunction In Suit Over Building's Permits
- GOP Sens. Question E-Records Incentive Program Costs
- Class Cert. Granted In FLSA Suit Against Health Care Co.
- Sen. Urges Crackdown On Misleading Power Wheelchair Ads
- A View From Inside The Litigation Finance Market
- Meningitis Suits Stand To Benefit From FDA Criminal Probe
- Troutman Says Ex-Partner's $20M Fee Suit Too Late
- Medicare Audit Bill May Usher In Crackdown On Contractors
- Lawmakers Urge Medicare Not To Expand Redundancy Cuts
- NJ Assembly Sends Health Exchange Bill To Governor
- Ins And Outs Of Starting A NJ Health Care Facility
- Planned Parenthood Renews Bid To Nix Medicaid Billing Case
- Catholic Health Systems Eye Nationwide Network With Merger
- IRS Charity Care Rule Puts Nonprofit Hospitals On Defense
- 2 NY Hospital Employees Get Prison For Kickback Scheme
- West Penn Says Highmark Breached Terms Of $475M Merger
- GOP Wants HHS To Justify $23M Malpractice Research Grants
- Store Rewards For Drug Copays Aren't Kickbacks, HHS Says
- Franck's, FDA Seek To Drop Compounding Oversight Case
- Hospital Group Backs Reforms To Medicare Fraud Recovery
- 4 Key Issues In Launching A Global Telemedicine Program
- Highmark Partners With Pa. Hospital In $65M Investment Deal
- 7th Circ. OKs Medicare Payment Cut To 19 Ill. Hospitals
- OIG Urges Medicaid To Lower Drug Payment Limits Quickly
- Pharmacy Linked To Meningitis Outbreak Faces $15M Suit
- Oxford Appeal Could Doom Class Arbitration, Attys Say
- EU Health Boss Quits Over Influence-Peddling Allegations
- Cautionary Tales In Recent FCA Decisions
- Another NLRB Decision Limits Employer Control
- Judge Turns Down GOP Brief On ACA Contraception Rule
- Obama, Romney Throw Blows Over Energy, Health Care, Trade
- GOP Sens. Want Report On $77M CMS Anti-Fraud Program
- 2 More Drugs May Be Linked To Meningitis Outbreak, FDA Says
- Walgreen To Issue Refunds Over 'Free' Flu Shot Advertising
- AMA Backs Ga. 'Prompt Pay' Law On Self-Insured Plans
- CareCore Resolves NY Medical Imaging Antitrust Suit
- CVS Pays $5M To End Whistleblower's Medicare Fraud Claims
- West Penn Rips Antitrust Suit In Wake Of Nixed Highmark Deal
- Prime Healthcare Loses 2nd Bid To Nix Workers' OT Suit
- Ameritox Can't Sink Rival's IP Suit Over Lab Reports' Format
- Doctors' Groups Pitch Permanent 'Doc Fix' To Senate
- How To Manage Physician Resistance To Hospital M&A
- Meningitis Plaintiffs Face Uphill Battle If Pharmacy Fails
- Calif. Workers' Comp Reforms Won't Stop Health Network Rows
- Ex-NY Senate Majority Leader Espada Cops To Tax Fraud
- Texas Proposes ACA-Ordered Medicare, Medicaid Provider Regs
- Highmark, West Penn Look To Rekindle Merger Talks
- GOP Sen. Says DC's Health Exchange Goes Too Far
- Connick, Marsalis Settle Image Row Over Health Provider Ad
- CMS Ratings Push Pressures Medicare Plans To Improve
- Providers Lose Class Cert. Bid In Blue Cross ERISA Row
- ACA-Prompted Hospital Mergers Can't Escape Antitrust Scrutiny
- Carolina Casualty Asks To Dodge Defending Worker Theft Suit
- Feds Probing CVS Prescription Refill Practices
- $205M Medicare Fraud Gets Health Care Manager 9 Years
- Blue Cross Says Hospital Co. Broke Logo Infringement Deal
- Protect Yourself From Biased, Deceptive Mediators: Part 2
- Kindred Hospital Workers Push For Class Cert. On OT Claims
- Meningitis Outbreak Spurs Push For Compounder Crackdown
- Financial Penalties Didn't Improve Hospital Care: Study
- Hospital Groups Back Phoebe Merger In High Court Fight
- $1M Stripped from Atty Fees in Aflac Child Premium Suit
- Hospital Patient-Snatching Case Moves On With Fewer Claims
- Rite Aid Settles False Ad Suit Over Customer Rewards
- Walgreen Fights Shipping Center's DEA Suspension At DC Circ.
- NJ Assembly Panel Clears Health Exchange Bill
- Nursing Homes Call SEIU 'Lawless' In Racketeering Suit
- Biden, Ryan Spar Over Health Care, Green Jobs In VP Slugfest
- Feds Defend Medi-Cal Provider Rate Cut Before 9th Circ.
- Hospital, Insurers Settle Child Sex Abuse Case For $123M
- Meningitis Outbreak Exposes FDA's Oversight Failures
- OIG Report Faults CMS, Contractor Efforts To Track ID Thefts
- Fla. Hospital Wants Class Cert. In $867M Drug Antitrust Suit
- Honeywell Shakes Worker Health Plan Reimbursement Suit
- Allscripts Battles For $300M Hospital Records Contract
- Firm Seeks Info On Accord That Sparked $2M Malpractice Suit
- $25M Suit Claims Ill. Blue Cross Gouging Policyholders
- Another HIPAA Violation Shows Costs Of Noncompliance
- Hospital Loses Bid To Keep OT Class Action In Federal Court
- Pa. Home Care Workers Sue Over Unpaid, Reduced Wages
- Medicare Fraud Suspects Often Hospitals, Suppliers: GAO
- Medicare Pay Needs Regional Adjustments, MedPAC Says
- Pharmacy Group Floats Plan To Save US $100B In Drug Costs
- Hill Seeks Probes, More Oversight After Drug-Caused Meningitis
- RI Requires Health Care Workers To Get Flu Vaccine
- Crowell Hires 3 Ex-Locke Lord Health Care Partners In LA
- Dilworth Taps Ex-Saul Ewing Atty To Lead Health Care Practice
- Pa. Hospital, Tenant Settle To Get $110M Expansion On Track
- Cigna Sex Bias Plaintiff Barely Dodges Sanctions
- Car Parts Maker Challenges ACA's Contraception Mandate
- UnitedHealth To Pay $4.9B For Leading Brazilian Insurer
- How ACA Modifies ERISA's Benefit Claims Procedures
- UPenn Hospital Owes $2M For Baby's Birth Injury, Court Says
- 5th Circ. Again Revives State Claims In UnitedHealth Suit
- Calif. Hospital Chain Wins OK On $6M OT Class Deal
- Universal Health Sells Hospital To Win FTC Nod On Ascend Buy
- Druggists Say NY Medicaid Mail-Order Plan Harms Competition
- GOP Congressmen Accuse HHS Of Stalling On ACA Answers
- HHS Must ID Medicare Overpayment Issues, DC Circ. Hears
- Lawmakers Ask DEA For Clearer Policies On Pharmacy Supplies
- HMO Asks 1st Circ. To Uphold $142M Neurontin Verdict
- Hospitals Cheer Electronic Transfers Rule
- NJ Senate Approves Health Exchange Bill
- 6th Circ. Nixes $83M Fresenius Medicare Fraud Judgment
- Ariz. Medicaid Recipients Win Class Cert. In Suit Over Copays
- Protect Yourself From Biased, Deceptive Mediators: Part 1
- $5M Settlement Enlists Highmark In UPMC Antitrust Fight
- House Leaders Demand HHS Stop E-Records Payments
- 8th Circ. Junks Mo. Official's ACA Individual Mandate Suit
- Nurses Lose Collective Cert. In FLSA Suit Against Hospital Co.
- Progressive's Scheme Shrunk Reimbursements, Suit Says
- After Brinker, Ex-Tenet Workers Lose Class Cert. Bid Again
- Feds Bust 91 In $430M Medicare Fraud Crackdown
- Cuomo Says No To Weaker Kickbacks Law For Health Referrals
- US Sanctioned Over Lost Docs In CHS Medicare Fraud Suit
- Case Study: In Re Pom Wonderful
- Reporting Under The Sunshine Act: Still In The Dark
- HHS Inspector General Plans New Reviews Of ACA Programs
- NH Urges Court Not To Block Access To Hep C Outbreak Docs
- Judge Won't Enforce 2005 Settlement, Stop Cigna Class Suit
- Amerigroup Ends $5B Wellpoint Deal Suit By Delaying Vote
- Bible Publisher Challenges ACA Religious Employer Scope
- Aetna Must Disclose Rates To Blue Cross In $2B Antitrust Suit
- Strengthening Medical Device Postmarket Surveillance
- ACA, Medicaid Mark Policy Contrast Between Obama, Romney
- Humana Can't Dodge Health Care Co.'s ERISA Suit
- Highmark Sues West Penn After Collapse Of $475M Merger
- Phoebe Urges High Court Not To Raise Antitrust Immunity Bar
- 11th Circ. Says Nurses At Fla. Clinic Are Supervisors
- 6th Circ. Upholds Ohio Law Restricting Abortion Pill
- Slow Exchange Progress Could Harm Insurers, Report Cautions
- Bedford Funding Raises $1B For Health Care IT Investments
- Romney Would Keep ACOs, Other Medicare Reforms: Adviser
- Challenge To Health Care Law's Contraception Mandate Nixed
- Blue Cross Says $66M Underpayment Suit Lacks Specifics
- Miami Docs Get 10 Years In $200M Medicare Kickbacks Scheme
- Anthem Blue Cross Settles Social Security Breach Case
- Blue Cross, Hospitals Told To Yield Docs In Antitrust Case
- La. Court Reinstates Blue Cross HMO State Contract
- Grassley Presses Hospitals On Low-Cost Drug Program
- Alston & Bird Picks Up Ropes & Gray Health Care Partner
- High Court Considers Taking Up Religious Challenge To ACA
- Ex-Orthofix Manager Charged In False Medicare Claim Scheme
- Trustee Urges High Court To Question CMS Payment Decisions
- WellPoint Ducks Some Claims In Unfair Premium Hike Suit
- Pa., Wis. Defy Health Plan Benefit Benchmark Deadline
- High Court Refuses To Hear Insurer's Bankruptcy Arbitration Bid